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Sharing the truth with love

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My thoughts on "sharing the truth with love": The problem is that the individual decides what love is. History of human kind should show that most humans don't really have a very good or clear concept of love. So when they try to do something that may hurt someone and say its in love, it's not received that way, because their concept of love is flawed or different than the recipient. Incidenta lly Gary Chapman has his book, the 5 love languages, it's a great book because it delves a little deeper into what other people see as a loving gesture. Now it doesn't really apply to this subject, but if even in doing things for a spouse or family member there are different ways of showing love and certain ones will not be received as love, that should give pause in dealing with a person one on one and doing something supposedly with love. I know a few people that are really good at homeless outreach, it's really where their heart is and they are equipp...